March 1, 2019

ALWAYS BET ON THE dEEP sTATE:

After signing into a law an amnesty omnibus boondoggle as a means of ending a shutdown standoff, it unfortunately appears that the Trump Administration is not yet done with its immigration-related capitulations.

On Thursday, Axios reported that the Administration is opting not to appeal a rogue decision last October from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that halted the Administration's efforts to rescind "Temporary Protected Status" (TPS) for aliens presently in the United States from Sudan, El Salvador, Haiti, and Nicaragua. As the Department of Homeland Security announced, the Administration is instead planning to abort its plans to rescind TPS. Instead, Homeland Security will automatically extend the TPS amnesty for the affected beneficiaries through January 2, 2020.

Legally, there is no reason not to appeal this rogue judge's preliminary injunction that infringes on our national sovereignty. On the substantive policy merits, furthermore, the failure to appeal amounts to de facto amnesty for what Axios reports are 300,000 aliens. That is not a small number!